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To: Scott McPealy who wrote (1304)	7/12/1998 7:08:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 1600

I suppose having to port software from NT v3.51 to NT v4.0 is your idea of progress? Or perhaps you prefer having to port software from NT v4.0 on Intel to NT v4.0 on Alpha? And just how hard is it to get your NT v4.0 software to run on, say, an AS/400? Or a SparcStation? Or a MIPS or PowerPC machine (BTW, whatever happened to NT support for those?)? JMHO.

To: Scott McPealy who wrote (1304)	7/12/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 1600

Tell me Rod why anyone should believe in the NC when it isn't a well-defined thing? It's a class of devices with generally accepted characteristics. To say that the NC is dead is to say that network-centric PCs are dead. Microsoft has been trying to force-feed fat-client architectures to run graphical DOS. Graphical DOS with multitasking ripped off from operating systems which have been running on PCs for twenty years. That's what you get when you have a bunch of no-talents operating in a vacuum with nothing but arrogance and cash to fuel their progress. The NC is very much alive because of that. Do you realize that Lotus has to port its Java eSuite program to Sun's Javastation NC before it will work because of VM incompatabilities? You make it sound as though they have to rewrite the product versus update the VM to eliminate compatibility problems which may have slipped through the cracks. Do you know how many re-writes are now underway as a result of Windows 98 incompatiblity with Windows 95 software? It's OK to extend an operating system but it's not cool to render the previous generation of software unusable. The VM is being improved incrementally as it should be. You are grossly exaggerating the issue because you are a Microsoft shill. We expect nothing less.